using the right technology at the right time
I’ve run across a significant blunder twice in the past couple months when it comes to using <cflocation> for redirects on public web sites. Unless you are explicitly trying to remember the user’s session, pass a value of false for the addtoken attribute. For example:
I saw this article a long time ago and forgot to post a link to it: The Biggest Web Design Mistakes of 2004 A nice summary of bonehead mistakes that people still like to make when designing web sites.
My team recently attended a presentation by Gartner Research called “Enterprise Portals: Their Strategic Future, Market and Value.” This was an exciting time for us because it gave us a few ideas on our own Intranet Portal project, and it helped validate most of the decisions we’ve made about the project.
It frustrates me to no end when someone mentions usability but clearly demonstrates that he or she doesn’t know what usability is all about.
As I am about to finish a project at work, there is one small issue I am sweating about a little. My project uses the FCKEditor WYSIWYG editor. It’s a fabulous product. And it’s open source. But why the name?
In my recent blog migration, I had to make decisions on how to guide my site’s visitors from the old pages to the new URLs generated by the new blog system. These “visitors” I just mentioned also include search engine spiders. When you redesign any portion of your site, think twice before deleting the old [...]
I’ll admit that I ego-surf every few months to see how this Web site is doing in the major search engines. I’m happy to say that my site now appears in the first results page on a search for “Chris Peters” on Google and MSN Search. Also, Google is now indexing my dynamically generated blog [...]
Here is a fine example of the government putting forth an effort to present its electronic data to citizens in as many formats as possible. The National Weather Service now offers weather forecast information as a free SOAP-based Web service. I believe it is the government’s responsibility to inform citizens the best they can, so [...]
Joel Spolsky takes a very Seth Godin-style approach in explaining the difference between an average programmer and the best programmers. It lines up so much with what Seth Godin preaches that I almost 100% suspect that Spolsky has read The Purple Cow and Free Prize Inside. Although this article starts rambling halfway through, it is [...]
G. A. Buchholz writes a great article that reminds us that usability is a tactic, not a strategy. While quite a few of us put great user experience at the top of our priority lists, we sometimes forget that it alone will not put food on the table for our organizations.
About MeI'm Chris Peters, and I'm a lover of web design and development. I'm based in Columbus, Ohio. Follow me as I have successes and struggles in this fast-moving technology environment.
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